Avishai Cohen, Trumpet

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A year after his impressionistic, award winning and critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, Avishai Cohen’s Cross My Palm With Silver (May 5th, 2017) introduces a program of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with an exceptional quartet featuring Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums). The adroit interplay among the musicians allows Avishai Cohen to soar, making it clear why the pure-toned trumpeter is one of the most talked-about jazz musicians on the contemporary scene.

In 2016 alone, Cohen was named “Best Foreign Artist” by Jazz Magazine France, while Into the Silence was awarded “Best Album of the Year” by TSF Jazz and Academie du Jazz, and in the top 20 albums of the year by JazzTimes. For four years running, Cohen has been voted a Rising Star-Trumpet in the Down Beat Critics Poll. Along with leading his quartet, the trumpeter has led Triveni (a trio with Omer Avital and Nasheet Waits) for over a decade, was a member of the prestigious SF Jazz Collective for six years, and has been a featured soloist in a number of special ensembles – most recently in “Jazz 100” alongside Danilo Perez, Lizz Wright, Chris Potter and Wycliffe Gordon. He also records and tours the world with The 3 Cohens Sextet, the hit family band with his sister, clarinetist-saxophonist Anat, and brother, saxophonist Yuval. Declared All About Jazz: “To the ranks of the Heaths of Philadelphia, the Joneses of Detroit and the Marsalises of New Orleans, fans can now add the 3 Cohens of Tel Aviv.”

The trumpeter began performing in public in 1988 at age 10, playing his first solos with a big band and eventually touring with the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra to perform under the likes of maestros Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur and Kent Nagano. Having worked with Israeli folk and pop artists in his native country and appeared on television early on, Cohen arrived as an experienced professional musician when he took up a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1997, the young musician established an international reputation by placing third in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Trumpet Competition. Avishai came of age as a jazz player as part of the fertile scene at the club Smalls in New York’s West Village.

Cohen first recorded for ECM as part of saxophonist Mark Turner’s quartet on Lathe of Heaven, released in September 2014. The trumpeter has performed at the Village Vanguard and beyond with Turner, as well as widely in a band led by pianist Kenny Werner. Cohen has played often in the Mingus Big Band and Mingus Dynasty ensemble, and he has lent his horn to recordings by Anat Cohen, Yuval Cohen and keyboardist Jason Lindner, along with collaborating on stage with French-Israeli pop singer Keren Ann, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Indian Tabla Master Zakir Hussain. In addition to performing, Cohen was named the Artistic Director of the International Jerusalem Festival in 2015.

As with Into The Silence, Cross My Palm With Silver was produced by Manfred Eicher at Studios La Buissonne in the south of France. It was released on the eve of a major European tour, with concerts in France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, and followed by a World Wide Tour in the Fall of 2017.

From The Mercury News
Seeking Truth And Freedom With A Jazz Trumpet
By: Paul Freeman
Avishai Cohen is more than a trumpeter. More than a composer. He’s a seeker.
Cohen says he and the musicians who share the stage with him must all have the same mindset. “We must all have the state of mind that we are out there...

From The Guardian
Avishai Cohen: Cross My Palm With Silver review – skilful Israeli trumpeter
By: John Fordham
Every generation of jazz trumpeters revisits the legacy of Miles Davis in their own ways, but the Israeli rising star Avishai Cohen’s version of the journey has been particularly skilful. His new quartet brings in childhood bassist friend Barak Mori to join...

From JazzTrail
AVISHAI COHEN – CROSS MY PALM WITH SILVER
Avishai Cohen, an intuitive Israeli trumpeter, is one of the most proficient voices of the creative jazz scene. Imagination and passion for exploration are constant aspects in his music, which also benefits from a deliberate openness and compositional adroitness.
His second recording for ECM, Cross My Palm With Silver, is...

From The Sacramento Bee
Dramatic, yet gracefully buoyant, new album from Avishai Cohen is a must-listen
By: Marcus Crowder
Trumpeter and composer Avishai Cohen possesses one of most beautiful tones on his instrument as anyone playing today. Though he often was heard and seen here during his long tenure with the SFJAZZ Collective, Cohen has displayed a more measured sensibility...

From The New York Times
The Playlist
By: Giovanni Russonello
Avishai Cohen, ‘Theme for Jimmy Greene’
The trumpeter Avishai Cohen has a tone that’s both burly and stark, suggesting opacity and allure. He began his relationship with ECM Records with last year’s “Into the Silence,” and on the new “Cross My Palm With Silver,” he continues down the same path,...

From ALLMUSIC
Avishai Cohen – Cross My Palm With Silver
By Matt Collar
On his ECM debut, 2016’s Into the Silence, Avishai Cohen was toiling with the death of his father and understandably, the album was deeply ruminative and introspective. With his sophomore ECM outing, 2017’s equally nuanced Cross My Palm with Silver, the trumpeter is no less reflective, yet...

from gearpatrol.com
The Man Pushing the Borders of the Jazz Trumpet
By: JOHN ZIENTEK
“I like the unknown,” Avishai Cohen told me over the phone. The trumpet player was at home in Tel Aviv, taking a break from touring to spend time with his family and write. (His young son, playing nearby, punctuated our conversation with shouts and laughs.) Cohen’s...

from straight.com
Jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen celebrates life and loss with Into the Silence
By: Tony Montague
Bereavement can reduce an artist to silence or inspire works that, while mourning the loss, also rejoice in the life spent. The death 18 months ago of Avishai Cohen’s father led the Israeli jazz trumpeter and composer to create Into the Silence, a...

from The New York Times
Review: Avishai Cohen Kicks Off Tour With a Set Both Turbocharged and Ghostly
By Nate Chinen
During a mesmerizing stretch of Avishai Cohen’s first set at the Jazz Standard on Wednesday night, his band fell quiet and he pointed the bell of his trumpet into the belly of the club’s piano. As he played a...

from WUWM
Jazz Trumpeter Avishai Cohen Journeys ‘Into the Silence’ in New Album
By Maayan Silver
Growing up in Israel, jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen was surrounded by music.
“My dad was a jazz lover,” says Cohen. “We used to listen at home to artists like Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald.” But it wasn’t just jazz on the airwaves in...

From bostonglobe.com
On a lyrical new CD, trumpeter Avishai Cohen contemplates loss
By Jon Garelick
“That moment on Turner’s album revealed Cohen as a musician who can submerge himself in a deep meditative space while maintaining a sure grasp of his musical surroundings. Jazz hinges on improvisation, but those improvisations are often filled with internalized licks and rehearsed calculations. Cohen...

From nytimes.com
Jazz Listings for April 22-28
“The trumpeter Avishai Cohen recently released a quietly ravishing album, “Into the Silence,” consisting of his lyrical compositions for an intently focused yet unhurried quintet. Here he leads different personnel — the pianist Jason Lindner, the bassist Tal Mashiach and the drummer Justin Brown — but draws from the same pool of music...

From patriotledger.com
SOUNDS AROUND TOWN: Avishai Cohen’s quartet plays it mellow
By Ed Symkus
“When I requested an interview with Avishai Cohen, whose jazz quartet plays at the Regattabar on April 28, I didn’t know if it was the Israeli bass player or the Israeli trumpeter. It didn’t matter. Both Avishai Cohens are tremendous musicians. Turns out I got the...

From metrowestdailynews.com
SOUNDS AROUND TOWN: Avishai Cohen’s quartet plays it mellow
By Ed Symkus
“When I requested an interview with Avishai Cohen, whose jazz quartet plays at the Regattabar on April 28, I didn’t know if it was the Israeli bass player or the Israeli trumpeter. It didn’t matter. Both Avishai Cohens are tremendous musicians. Turns out I got the...

From spiritualityhealth.com
The Sound of Loss from Avishai Cohen
“For four years running, Avishai Cohen has been voted a Rising Star-Trumpet in the DownBeat Critics Poll. Along with leading his Triveni trio with Omer Avital and Nasheet Waits, the trumpeter has been a member of the prestigious SF Jazz Collective for six years. He also records and tours the world...

From telegraph.co.uk
Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence (ECM)
By Martin Chilton
“In his first record for ECM, New York-based Israeli trumpeter has recorded a moving album dedicated to his late father. The playing is sad and expressive and features some lovely work with the mute. There is some fine tenor sax from Bill McHenry and deft piano work from Yonathan...

From downbeat.com
Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence
“There’s no lack of poise in Avishai Cohen’s music. This new quintet disc arrives with a fetching equilibrium that gives each passage the power to determine its own weight. as the trumpeter’s crew moves along, precision guides their choices. Maybe that’s because Cohen is so accustomed to do trio work, a realm...

From jazzviews.net
AVISHAI COHEN – Into The Silence
By Nick Lea
“For his debut for ECM, the trumpeter assembled a cast of musicians whose playing he was intimately familiar with, yet the participants had never played together as a unit. Furthermore, to this mix Cohen introduced all new material written especially for the session. The core material was all composed...

from The Guardian
Avishai Cohen: Into the Silence review – irresistible stuff from New York trumpeter
By John Fordham
There are two Israeli Avishai Cohens on the jazz circuit – the famous bass-playing composer, and the younger New York-based trumpeter who leads this fascinating session, and who is likewise an instrumental master and a composer of vivid originality. Into the...

from stereophile.com
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH
Recording of April 2016: Into the Silence
By: Thomas Conrad
In the new millennium, no country other than Cuba has exported more important jazz musicians to the United States than has Israel. But even though the Israeli jazz phenomenon has been much discussed in the jazz press, critics have been late to...

From thegreenmanreview.com
Avishai Cohen’s Into The Silence
“Seeing Cohen fronting a quartet in mid-2015 didn’t prepare me for the quiet impact of this quite different set of music. It did, however, prepare me to recognize the 30-something Cohen as a disciple of (among others) Miles Davis. So the opening section of the first track here, “Life and Death,” with its...

from allaboutjazz.com
Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence
By: Karl Ackerman
Israeli-born trumpeter and prodigy Avishai Cohen was already touring with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra as a teenager. He attended Berklee College of Music, and later, placed highly in the Thelonious Monk jazz trumpet competition. A progressive-thinking artist, he hasn’t looked back musically. With his highly regarded group, Triveni, Cohen challenged...

From Lexington Herald Leader
Critic’s Pick: Avishai Cohen, ‘Into the Silence’
By Walter Tunis
It’s perhaps an inevitability for a versed jazz trumpet player to draw comparisons to Miles Davis. You try to avoid the parallels, yet there they are. So when Avishai Cohen opens his sublime new Into the Silence album with a slow, plaintive serenade on the muted...

From jewishaz.com
Dark victory: Avishai Cohen’s ‘‘Into The Silence’
By AJ Frost
“With “Into The Silence,” Cohen has created a dark masterpiece. This is not a jazz record to lift the spirits, but neither is it a mere jazz record. On the contrary, it is a stark and unrelenting tone poem, meant to be digested by those who can appreciate...

From kentucky.com
Critic’s Pick: Avishai Cohen, ‘Into the Silence’
By Walter Tunis
“It’s perhaps an inevitability for a versed jazz trumpet player to draw comparisons to Miles Davis. You try to avoid the parallels, yet there they are. So when Avishai Cohen opens his sublime new Into the Silence album with a slow, plaintive serenade on the muted horn over...

From spiritualityhealth.com
Music Review: Into the Silence
By John Malkin
“Cohen’s muted trumpet is graceful and pure on songs like “Life and Death,” “Quiescence,” and “Behind the Broken Glass.” His sensitive playing is enhanced by exquisite harmonies and interplay with a talented quartet of Yonathan Avishai (on piano), Eric Revis (double bass), Nasheet Waits (drums), and Bill McHenry (tenor saxophone)....

From toneaudio.reviews
Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence
By Kevin Whitehead
“Avishai Cohen has a ravishing trumpet sound, and rare control, and knows what to do with all that technique. Soloing on “Behind the Broken Glass” from his quartet/quintet’s Into the Silence, he steps or leaps from the low end of his horn’s range to the top. He plays precarious...

From jazztimes.com
Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence
By Bill Beuttler
“Trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s beautiful, elegiac Into the Silence is a tribute to his late father, who died in 2014. Lesser life changes of a musical nature are also involved: It is his first recording as a leader for ECM (a switch from sister Anat’s Anzic label), Cohen’s playing on...

From allmusic.com
Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence
By Matt Collar
“Trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s ECM debut, 2016’s Into the Silence, is a ruminative, elegiac album far — if not completely — removed from the kinetic, aggressive post-bop of his 2014 effort, Dark Nights. As with all ECM releases, Into the Silence was produced by label founder Manfred Eicher and, as...

From blueceej.tumblr.com
Two ECM trumpet quartets: Avishai Cohen “Into the Silence”, and Ralph Alessi, “Quiver”
By CJ Shearn
““Into the Silence” by Avishai Cohen is music written by the veteran Israeli born trumpeter following the death of his father. The tunes were additionally inspired by Cohen’s listening to the music of Rachmaninoff, and he is ably assisted by a core...

From buffalo.com
Listening Post: Monster all-star blues collection ‘God Don’t Never Change;’ Avishai Cohen’s ‘Into the Silence’
By Staff
“The influence of Miles Davis on other musicians – especially trumpet players – has always been one of the most fascinating subjects in jazz. His inimitable sound, both Harmon-muted and unmuted, is seldom essayed by any trumpet player because it’s so...

from mixcloud.com/JazzStandard
Following the release of Into The Silence, critically acclaimed trumpeter Avishai Cohen talks to Tina Edwards. He shares personal stories about his childhood and the relationship he had with his late Father, as well as telling us what makes his native city of Tel Aviv such a vibrant place for musicians.
We pick out our favourite tune from...

From the greenmanreview.com
Avishai Cohen’s Into The Silence
“Seeing Cohen fronting a quartet in mid-2015 didn’t prepare me for the quiet impact of this quite different set of music. It did, however, prepare me to recognize the 30-something Cohen as a disciple of (among others) Miles Davis. So the opening section of the first track here, “Life and Death,” with...

From allaboutjazz.com
Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence
By Karl Ackermann
“Besides being Cohen’s finest composing and playing to date, Into the Silence is an extraordinary project on every level. There is a transcendence in this music that is both uplifting and heartbreaking. The group plays as one, they genuinely feel an appreciation of humanity and life-changing ramifications of loss. The...

from nrwjazz.net
20 triumph over transience*
By: Karl Lippegaus
The album’s title “Into the Silence” refers to the transient, the death, the silence. It’s about a sense region that lies beyond the verbal and can if ever expressed only through music. Or through images. Someone is no longer there – you can not hear his or her voice in your...

From blurtonline.com
AVISHAI COHEN – Into the Silence
By Michael Toland
“Trumpeter Avishai Cohen made his name with a pair of outfits: the family band 3 Cohens Sextet and the aggressively improvisational trio Triveni. For his latest solo album, however, he moves into a more contemplative, even melancholy mood. Into the Silence pays tribute to the Tel Aviv-born/NYC-based composer’s late...

From allmusic.com
AllMusic Review by Matt Collar
By Matt Collar
“Trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s ECM debut, 2016’s Into the Silence, is a ruminative, elegiac album far — if not completely — removed from the kinetic, aggressive post-bop of his 2014 effort, Dark Nights. As with all ECM releases, Into the Silence was produced by label founder Manfred Eicher and, as such,...

from allaboutjazz.com
Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence
By: Mark Sullivan
4 Stars
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen makes his ECM leader debut with Into the Silence, an album dedicated to the memory of his late father. Cohen composed the melodies over six months following his father’s passing in November 2014, inspired by an album of Rachmaninoff’s solo piano music. It’s not always...

From somethingelsereviews.com
Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence (2016)
By S. Victor Aaron
“Recently ECM Records founder and head honcho Manfred Eicher has been corralling some of the most talented jazz musicians working in NYC into his record label: the additions of Tim Berne, Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn and Ches Smith have given this traditionally Euro-centered label a tilt toward...

from ukvibe.org
Avishai Cohen ‘Into The Silence’ (ECM) 5/5
By: Mike Gates
“Into the silence” is trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s debut as leader for the ECM label, and what a breathtaking album it is. The six compositions were written by Cohen during the six months that followed his father’s passing in November 2014. During his father’s final few weeks, Cohen listened...

From theepochtimes.com
Immigrants: A Blessing to Our American Music
By Barry Bassis
“I could easily write a book about Israeli jazz musicians or at least a chapter on The Three Cohens, two brothers and a sister from Tel Aviv, who have achieved stardom together and separately.
Anat Cohen has been leading Downbeat polls as the top clarinet player for years,...

From lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com
CD Review: Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence.
“The music was composed 6 months after the death of his father. The opening track Life and Death sets the tone of the entire album – brooding, melancholy, sensitive and moving. Dream Like a Child is a reference to how his father’s family couldn’t afford to give him music lessons...

From allaboutjazz.com
Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence
By Mark Sullivan
“Trumpeter Avishai Cohen makes his ECM leader debut with Into the Silence, an album dedicated to the memory of his late father. Cohen composed the melodies over six months following his father’s passing in November 2014, inspired by an album of Rachmaninoff’s solo piano music. It’s not always sad music—this...

from deutschlandfunk.de
The trumpeter Avishai Cohen
By: Karl Lippegaus
No doubt, Avishai Cohen has long been “arrived” – as a leader, co-leader and sideman. “Dark Nights” is his seventh album in a trio with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. The living in New York trumpeter from Israel a strong feeling for an exciting mix of modern original compositions,...

from thejazzbreakfast.com
Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence
By: Peter Bacon
I first came across “the other” Avishai Cohen in 2008 when I descended the stairs of Smalls, the little club in Greenwich Village, and found the trumpeter leading a band on that stage backed by the delightful photo of another trumpeter, Louis Armstrong.
To read the full article click...

Hearing Avishai Cohen play on the recording session for Mark Turner’s recent Lathe of Heaven album, producer Manfred Eicher was struck by the trumpeter’s contribution at once. “I immediately liked Avishai’s tone, his phrasing, his energy and purity of sound,” he said. Now comes Cohen’s ECM leader debut with Into the Silence, an album dedicated to the memory of his...

from derstandard.at
Album of the Week: Avishai Cohen “Into The Silence”
All pieces that Avishai Cohen for Into The Silence (ECM) wrote, created in those six months after the death of his father. They are of elegiac, poetic tinge, and Cohen she has framed in epic sweeping compositions that come along dreamily as a whole. Dream Like A Child takes...

Can there be any doubt that the Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival achieved critical mass this year?
The third annual event ran nine days and spanned the city north to south (plus Evanston), culminating on Friday night with trumpeter Avishai Cohen drawing a capacity crowd to the Old Town School of Folk Music’s Szold Hall. It was a fitting...

From The Woodshed
50 Killer Living Trumpet Players: Chad & Mike’s Excellent Adventure
By: Mike Lebrun
Top 50 Trumpeters
[Chad] Melodically, trumpet-ly, so much tradition. He’s both rooted and forward-looking at the same time.
To read the full list, click here

From ukvibe
Welcome to ukvibe’s BEST JAZZ ALBUMS OF 2014
There have been many alternative ‘Best Of’ lists these past few weeks; DownBeat sighted Sonny Rollins, Dave Holland and The Bad Plus as their top three. Many included Pat Metheny Unity Group, Ambrose Akinmusire, Kris Bowers and Takuya Kuroda in their lists. Big names like Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter, Pat...

From The Telegraph
Avishai Cohen’s Triveni, Vortex Jazz Club, review: ‘clear what all the fuss is about’
By: Ivan Hewett
The Israeli trumpeter revealed himself to be a magnificent player and composer who sits squarely in the great jazz tradition, says Ivan Hewett
Not to be confused with the well-known bass player of the same name, this tall, smilingly benign...

From Winnipeg Free Press
Avishai Cohen’s Triveni – Dark Nights
By Chris Smith
THIS is the third disc by the trio of trumpeter Avishai Cohen, bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits, and it diverges from the first two by including guest musicians and features Cohen using electronic effects and overdubs.
The superb quality of the compositions and performance remains...

From Music & Literature
A Conversation with Avishai Cohen
By: Jesse Ruddock
Avishai Cohen has been working since he was ten, when his job was to stand on a soap box and play trumpet for a big band. Raised in Tel Aviv, the youngest of three jazz prodigies in one house, his music is persistently lyrical, often sublime, and intensely...

From Wondering Sound
New Jazz This Week: Marianne Trudel, Eva Kruse, Avishai Cohen and More
By: Dave Sumner
For the second week in a row, some late Best of 2014 contenders state their claim. Two qualities reflect most of this week’s list of recommendations: strong musicianship and fun fun music. You just can’t overvalue the potency of serious music that’s...

From Downbeat Magazine
Avishai Cohen’s Triveni: Dark Nights
By: John Corbett
This is a honey of a record. It’s got everything you could want from a devastating young band: complete command, interaction dynamics, a sense of play and adventure, and a wonderfully surprising track list. Add to it Avishai Cohen’s penetrating voice on trumpet, and you need nothing more. It’s...

From Jazz History Online
AVISHAI COHEN’S TRIVENI: “DARK NIGHTS”
By: Thomas Cunniffe
For many jazz musicians, recordings are an important part of their career, and they take extraordinary care to bring the music as close to perfection as possible. Other musicians, like trumpeter Avishai Cohen, take the opposite approach, letting their reflections capture how their music sounded on one particular...

From Exiled in Eugene
Avishai Cohen’s Triveni “Dark Nights” (2014 Anzic)
By: Joshua Finch
I’m not exactly a jazz aficionado, so know that when I say that Dark Nights is my favorite jazz record of 2014 so far, it’s only stacked up against about 5 other records. However, you may also take into account that I’m a picky bastard with...

From Jazz Weekly
Avishai Cohen’s Triveni: Dark Nights
By: George W. Harris
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen once again teams up with drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist Omer Avital for some loose as a goose compositions and jazz tunes. A fragile Kenny Dorham-reminiscent tone and delivery is palpable throughout as his horn cries on”You IN All Directions” and moans on “Dark Nights,...

From Sept Tempest
October Recommendations (Part 1)
By: Richard B. Kamins
“Dark Nights” is the 3rd recording by Avisahi Cohen’s Triveni, the trumpeter’s trio with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. The ensemble’s first 2 CDs were recorded on the same day but released 18 months apart. Since that time, Cohen has toured with his sister Anat and brother...

From All About Jazz
“OC” By Avishai Cohen – Trumpet
A free-minded tribute to Ornette Coleman, “The OC” by trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s third album from his electrifying trio Triveni with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits out on October 28, 2014. Cohen, is joined on the album not only by his powerhouse rhythm mates but also by three special...

from jazztimes.com
Siena Jazz Summer Workshops 2014: Hang. Eat. Study. Jam.
By: Thomas Conrad
Visiting the Siena Jazz Workshops is not exactly like going to a jazz festival. In some ways it is better. It is mellower. You get a few hours sleep every night. Siena may be Italy’s most beautiful hill town. The pasta rocks, especially the pici. And...

from jpost.com
Three cool cats make up the Cohen jazz trifecta
By: Barry Davis
Members of bands that stay in business for a long time – and they are generally few and far between – often talk about having a sense of kinship. That includes the squabbles as well as the closeness and the shared creative nous.
Jazz trumpeter Avishai...

from chicagoreader.com
Fat-toned trombonist Reut Regev among the highlights of the Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival
By: Peter Margasak
The second Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival kicked off on Tuesday, but some of the best shows take place in the coming week. In this week’s paper I wrote a preview of Sunday’s concert by the trio led by...

from chicagoreader.com
Trumpeter, Avishai Cohen Trio
By: Peter Margasak
The saxophone trio is one of jazz’s great proving grounds—everything the horn player does is laid bare atop the rhythm section. You don’t hear much about trumpet trios, and for good reason—the format’s demands are so great that most musicians shy away from it. A trumpet generally requires more air and...

from jazzenzo.nl
Groove is leading the way in quest for balance
By: Armand van Wyck
“One more time”, says Avishai Cohen rhythm section that he quietly groove late drop during the opening number. A heavy, slow bass line brings the audience slowly into a trance. Then the first notes sounded by the trumpets: laid back , quiet, sultry, with full...

from winnipegfreepress.com
Tightrope (Anzic Records)
By: Chris Smith
THE 3 Cohens are many things: improvisers, composers, great musicians and figurative tightrope walkers.
Siblings Anat (tenor saxophone, clarinets), Avishai (trumpet) and Yuval (soprano sax) play mostly a cappella on Tightrope, their fourth recording.
The three have uncanny musical rapport, and their emphasis on horns-only music and improvisation here cements the chemistry...

from ajwnews.com
3 Cohens are back again with their horns
By: Mordecai Specktor
The 3 Cohens – Anat, Yuval and Avishai – play their horns (saxophones, clarinet and trumpet) unaccompanied on most of the 18 tracks that comprise their new album, Tightrope (Anzic). The siblings from Tel Aviv, who play together and with various other ensembles, have developed a sort...

from londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com
Thoughts on the trumpet, and live jazz, and fading stars.
This is an LJC “indulge me” postscript.
So much of my listening to modern jazz has been on vinyl, a riveting set at the Nice Jazz Festival this week by Omer Avital, featuring Avishai Cohen on trumpet, brought me up sharply. I had heard the trumpet by Miles...

Posted Jul 15th, 2013

from cultura.elpais.com
An Israeli Jazz Prophret
Bu: Seisedos Iker
Spread these days a kind in the world of jazz in Spain (as in need of good news) which tells of a prodigious Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen called (not to be confused with the bassist of the same name and nationality). He was able to give hope to fans during a...

from jazztimes.com
Catching Up with Trumpeter Avishai Cohen
By: Marta Ramon
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen has emerged in the past decade as one of the rising stars of jazz. The brother of saxophonist/clarinetist Anat and saxophonist Yuval Cohen, he he attended the Berklee College of Music in the late ’90s and placed third in the 1997 Thelonious Monk Jazz Trumpet Competition,...

from irishtimes.com
Avishai Cohen: Triveni II
By: Cormac Larkin
For a trumpeter, it takes more than a little chutzpah to dispense with any chordal instrument and negotiate the sparse terrain of the jazz trio. But then, Israeli-born Avishai Cohen (whose name is always followed by the word “trumpeter” to distinguish him from the bassist of the same name) is by...

_from
Birth of the cool Israeli
By: Mordecai Spektor
Avishai Cohen is feeling under the weather. During a recent telephone interview with the AJW from his home in Tel Aviv, he sounds a little groggy, and he apologizes for his diminished physical state.
Hopefully, Cohen, who has emerged as a dazzling trumpeter on the jazz scene, will recuperate in time...

from southflorida.com
3 Cohens, many influences
By: Bob Weinberg
George Wein’s Newport All-Stars seemed a bit out of place among the percussive, groove-heavy lineup of San Juan’s 2010 Heineken Jazz Fest. How would a bluesy, traditional jazz group fare amidst a roster of Latin-jazz superstars? And yet, when the band’s clarinetist, the Israeli-born Anat Cohen, started blowing hot ‘n’ sweet...

from examiner.com
Your last best list of the year’s jazz recordings
By: Neil Tesser
“Triveni II” (Anzic). With this recording (the second by this trio), Israeli-born Avishai Cohen does for the trumpet what Sonny Rollins did in his saxophone-led trios of the late 50s: he displays a sense of orchestration, and an awareness of the extra-melodic capabilities of his instrument,...

Avishai Cohen’s “Triveni II”, the second release from his triofeaturing Omer Avital and Nasheet Waits was featured on the Peter Margasak (Chicago Reader) and Dan Bilawsky’s (All About Jazz) year end top 10 lists.
To see Peter’s full list click here
To see Dan’s full list click here

from blogs.opb.org
Top 10 Albums of 2012
By: Matt Fleeger
The 3 Cohen siblings (Yuval, Anat, Avishai) showcase their abilities for songwriting, playing and passionate improvisation on this swinging, hard-driving release. Guest vocalist Jon Hendricks joins the band for a couple of tunes – making this album a diverse, and solid, listen the whole way through. There’s something special about...

from jpost.com
Excerpt from Concert review: Madeleine Peyroux
By: Avi Hoffman
Peyroux invited top Israeli jazzman Avishai Cohen to to join her in several songs and his trumpet paralleled her voice in compelling duos. Mori, her bassist, is Israeli and when she invited leading local saxophonist Eli Dejibri to jam with them in the final song “Careless Love,” the crowd...

from thecrimson.com
Avishai Cohen Fuses Jazz With Israeli Roots
Israeli trumpeter comes to perform at the Regattabar
By: Tree A. Palmedo
“People like to hear people analyze their own music,” says Avishai Cohen, calmly sipping an espresso before a sound check at Cambridge’s Regattabar last Thursday. “Today,” he says, “it’s like the better you talk about your music, the more...

from downbeat.com
Avishai Cohen, Triveni II (Anzic)
By: Frank Alkyer
Introducing Triveni was one of my favorite records of 2010. It was an introduction to trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s new trio with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. So it’s no surprise that Triveni II, recorded during the same two-day recording session in Brooklyn, delivers another powerful set. Triveni II...

from jazzchill.blogspot.com
AVISHAI COHEN -TRIVENI II
By: Dusty Groove
Amazing work from trumpeter Avishai Cohen – working here with his Triveni trio, and sounding even more powerful than on the first release from that group! The combo features incredible bass from Omer Avital – a player we’ve really come to love in recent years – and rocketing drums from Nasheet...

Trumpeter Avishai Cohen, voted a Rising Star in this year’s DownBeat Critics Poll, releases Triveni II in October 2012 via Anzic Records. It’s his second album with Triveni – his bold, electrifying trio with double-bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. Triveni II is the follow-up to Introducing Triveni, which New York City Jazz Record called “easily one of the...

from jazzhistoryonline.com
Anat and Avishai Cohen at the Wolf Theatre, Denver (October 27, 2012)
By: Thomas Cunniffe
It is a rare treat for us in the hinterlands to hear live authentic jazz from Brooklyn. There are several progressive sub-genres developing inthat New York borough, and the Cohen family—clarinetist Anat, trumpeter Avishai and saxophonist Yuval—are at the forefront of those ideas....

from somethingelsereviews.com
Avishai Cohen – Triveni II (2012)
By: S. Victor Aaron
For Triveni II, Avishai Cohen (the trumpet player, not the bass dude), the stated intention of this record was to recreate the feeling Cohen got from listening to Billie Holiday: “a feeling that’s pure, simple and honest.” That’s the same vibe I get from listening to Cohen’s Triveni...

allaboutjazz.com
Avishai Cohen: Triveni II (2012)
By: Dan Bilawsky
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen had already reached the upper echelons of the jazz world when he put Triveni into motion, but this trio’s debut—Introducing Triveni (Anzic Records, 2010)—still managed to mark a quantum leap in his artistry. The Israeli-born horn man first made stateside ripples when he placed third in the Thelonious...

jazztimes.com
Third World Love
Songs and Portraits
Omer Avital can instigate a band like few bass players. He has quietly become an important bassist-bandleader in the tradition of Charles Mingus and Dave Holland. Avishai Cohen, with his tantalizing tart tone and well-formed fresh ideas, may be the most underrated trumpet player in jazz. They are two of the co-leaders here....